Our strength here at Akwaaba is distributing and marketing music from Africa, and we’d like to put our expertise to work, by releasing a compilation of music from Haiti, and by giving our entire profits to organizations working on the ground in Haiti.
We need to act fast, so if you are a Haitian artist, or if you own the rights to Haitian songs, please contact us to see how to release this music as part of a joint relief effort.
Let’s get people involved! Please forward to your friends and family, and feel free to join the conversation at Music for Relief.
Killamu is one of the most respected kuduro beat makers in Angola. He has been part of the kuduro scene for ten years now, and started producing tracks for Gueto Produções with Mestre Ara eight years ago. The duo quickly established their production house as one of the very best in Luanda, collaborating with many of Angola’s most innovative kudurists: laying tracks for artists such as Puto Prata, Noite e Día and Fofandó & Saborosa, together they have paved the way for the next generation of hard-hitting, rhyme-spitting kuduro lyricists.
With a slew of hits behind his name, Killamu has become an unavoidable producer on the kuduro circuit. But as this album shows, his versatility allows him to explore sounds beyond kuduro, starting with kizomba (Angolan zouk), but also, and perhaps most importantly for Western audiences, his experimentations into more instrumental, electronic kuduro beats have definitely set him aside within Angola’s kuduro community.
